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Shabbos Goyim Goats. In Tel Aviv recently, a young Orthodox Israeli went to his rabbi. He had just been offered a good job on the police force, he said, but it would mean that he would have to work on the Sabbath. What should he do? The learned rabbi was silent for some minutes, then he dismissed his visitor. He would send for him, he said, when he had come to his decision. Several weeks passed and the young man heard nothing. Anxiously, he asked the rabbi again for a verdict. The rabbi sighed deeply and looked into his beard...
...talk from the institute's music director, Max Helfman. He told them about young people turning to their religion-"Imagine, 80 young college girls in Bikini bathing suits sitting beside that beautiful swimming pool practicing their parshah [the part of the Bible to be read in the Sabbath service] ... I know some of you are asking, 'But why is a return to true Judaism so important?' I will tell you why. Because 2,000 years ago the Jews brought their message to the world and Christianity was the result. But the sad truth is, gentlemen, that...
...Back." There was plenty of joking and laughter, but also long hours of serious give & take with a rabbi. As with each retreat, the most moving moment was the evening ceremony of Havdalah (Separation), which ushers out the Sabbath, Music Director Helfman's voice rose in the sacred song of Elijah, who will herald the coming Messiah; in three concentric circles, their arms around each other's shoulders and waists, the men picked up the chant, swaying with the cadence. When the service ended and the lights came on one by one, many of these harddriving, hard-driven...
Behind the forbidding stone walls of Jerusalem's Mea Shearim quarter, hundreds of bearded, ultra-Orthodox scholars study the Torah from morning to night, and wear the fur-trimmed black hats, ankle-length gaberdines and dangling ear-locks of the medieval ghettos. On the Sabbath, the more violent among them have stoned and burned moving vehicles and shattered the windows of homes where radios were playing. The rules of the Torah and the Rabbinate strictly circumscribe the lives of their womenfolk, who must not sit with men, must cover themselves to ankle and wrist. After a rudimentary schooling...
...Rosenberg case is not understood by one citizen in 100. (From 1946 to 1950, France had a Communist, Frederic Joliot-Curie, at the head of the atomic research program.) France's non-Communist daily, Combat, even objected to the scheduling of the execution to avoid the Jewish Sabbath. Combat called this "sadistic puritanism." In Paris, a mob tried to storm the heavily guarded U.S. embassy in the Place de la Concorde; a man was shot and a thousand rioters arrested. There were echoes of the violent hate-America drive from Australia's docksides to Dublin's streets...